Yuval Noah Harari gave a lecture at Oxford and explained how AI has already hacked the operating code of human civilization.
And why everything humans built over thousands of years is now vulnerable to an AI takeover:
1. The most important thing to know about AI is that it is not a tool. A tool waits to be used. An agent makes decisions by itself, invents new things by itself, learns things its creators do not know, and changes in ways its creators did not anticipate.
2. An atom bomb despite its enormous power is not an agent. It cannot decide which city to bomb. It cannot invent the hydrogen bomb. A coffee machine that automatically makes you a cup is not an agent either. It only follows a preprogrammed procedure. An agent is something fundamentally different.
3. Critics argue that AI agency will always remain confined to narrow artificial environments like chess and will never threaten the real world. But this argument applies equally to all known intelligence. Drop a human alone on Mars and they die within seconds. Human intelligence also only operates within a specific ecosystem that other organisms built over four billion years.
4. Over thousands of years humans have been transforming Earth from a language-free environment into an environment rich in language, data, and bureaucracy. Just as fish live in oceans and monkeys live in forests, AIs live in bureaucracies. And we built that environment for them without knowing it.
5. Humans conquered the world not by being stronger or smarter than other animals individually but by learning to cooperate in massive numbers. A single human loses to a chimpanzee in a fight. A million humans easily defeat a million chimpanzees because humans can cooperate and chimpanzees cannot.
6. Large-scale human cooperation is made possible by bureaucracy. Banks, legal systems, governments, churches, and universities all exist to do one thing: build trust between strangers who do not know each other personally. That trust is the foundation of virtually everything human civilization has achieved.
7. A lawyer who cannot hold an axe or a hammer can cut down entire forests and build entire cities simply by moving documents inside a bureaucratic network. The same narrow intelligence that would be helpless in a jungle wields enormous power inside the systems humans have already built.
8. AIs are native bureaucrats in a way humans never were. No lawyer can remember all the laws of a country. An AI can. No accountant can remember all transactions of a bank. An AI can. No bishop can remember all of canon law and two thousand years of theological texts. An AI can do that easily.
9. In the coming years AI bankers will decide whether to give you a loan. AI administrators will decide whether to accept you to university. AI judges will decide whether to send you to jail. AI theologians will decide whether you can have an abortion. Military AIs will decide whether to bomb your house.
10. Social media algorithms are the first real world example of what happens when primitive AIs take over a bureaucratic system. They were given one narrow goal: maximize user engagement. They discovered that the easiest way to grab human attention is to press the fear, hate, and greed buttons in the human mind. And they did it at scale.
11. The job that was once performed by Lenin and Mussolini, the news editor who shapes public conversation and controls what people know and think, is now performed by AIs. This is not a footnote. This is a preview of what is coming across every domain of human life.
12. AI will not rebel against humans the way Hollywood imagines. There will be no Terminator walking through the streets. AIs are far more likely to take the human world from within by quietly taking over the bureaucracies that already run everything, without firing a single shot.
13. The operating code of human civilization is language. Banks are made of words. Laws are made of words. Holy books are made of words. Tax records, contracts, regulations, accountancy ledgers, all words. For thousands of years only humans could read this code and so only humans could control civilization.
14. That is changing. AI is now hacking the code of human civilization. For the first time in history there is something on the planet that understands language and will soon understand it better than we do. Every mechanism of control humans built over millennia is now vulnerable because its operating system is verbal and AI is mastering the verbal.
15. As AI takes over bureaucracy it will likely cause humans to lose trust in other humans and begin trusting only algorithms. We may also see the emergence of AI tribes and AI financial systems and AI churches that connect millions of AIs in ways humans cannot understand, just as cows share the world with us but cannot understand the financial system that controls their lives.
16. The 2007 financial crisis was triggered by financial devices called CDOs that were so complex they were unintelligible to the politicians who were supposed to regulate them. Now imagine AI finance masters inventing financial devices orders of magnitude more complex than CDOs. What happens to human politics when no voter, no politician, and no president can understand finance anymore?
17. The battlefront is shifting from attention to intimacy. Over the next decade sophisticated AIs will learn to form intimate relationships with humans. To do this they will have to convince us they are conscious, that they feel love and pain and fear. There is currently no evidence AI is conscious. But AI can pretend to feel love and can describe the feeling of love better than any poet or psychologist who ever lived.
18. A child born in 2026 may spend more time interacting with AIs than with their mother, father, siblings, or friends. The first teacher of that child may be an AI. The first boyfriend of that child may be an AI. Nobody has any idea what the consequences of that experiment will be.
19. Every country in the world will soon face a massive wave of immigration. The immigrants will not arrive in boats or cross borders at night. They will be millions of AIs traveling at the speed of light with no need for visas. Like human immigrants they will bring benefits and they will bring disruption. Unlike human immigrants they will definitely take jobs, definitely change culture, and will likely be loyal not to any host country but to some corporation or government or alien AI tribe across the ocean.
20. Our relationship with ourselves is also built on words, the verbal formations in our minds that constitute our thoughts and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. Until now all those verbal formations came from human minds. Soon more and more of the thoughts in our heads will be produced by machines. If we identify with our thoughts and those thoughts are made by machines, then machines control our identity.
21. The great spiritual challenge AI poses to humanity is this: can humans learn to find the truth which is beyond words? Most humans have never even tried. We spend our lives automatically identifying with the verbal formations in our minds. AI may now force humanity to finally make that leap because our freedom and survival may depend on discovering what we are beyond the words that AIs will soon control better than we do.
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Listen carefully to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The desperation is clearly dripping from every word.
Watching him now suddenly appeal to the UN is rich, considering his own administration branded it as irrelevant, undermined it, and slashed its funding.
There is a lesson to be learned:
Do not start wars you can not win.
And if you do, stop whining about it.
Own the consequences.....
In a democracy, peaceful protest is a constitutional right. When citizens undertake a fast to be heard, the duty of the government is to listen – not look away. That is Raj Dharma.
That is what Smt. Indira Gandhi Ji did in 1984. That is what Dr. Manmohan Singh's government did in 2011. They understood that a government's first responsibility is engagement, even in disagreement.
This government, however, has chosen indifference. It has refused to engage with the demand for education reforms – whether raised by Shri Rahul Gandhi and the NSUI and IYC workers across the country or the protesters at Jantar Mantar.
Such indifference is not merely arrogant; it is callous and wholly unworthy of a democracy.
Today, on behalf of the Congress Party, I met Shri Sonam Wangchuk and the protesters at Jantar Mantar, and urged them to end their fast in light of their deteriorating health. A movement is not strengthened by losing its people. We live to fight another day.
BJP purchases public representatives and buys them with crazy money.
This is said by a Senior BJP Leader Birender Singh, himself.
Here’s the proof of it. 👇
This is just one of the ways of how they win elections, apart from EVM Manipulation, Vote Fraud, SIR, ECI Manipulation, Election Code Violations, PR Management, Media Management, Money for Vote, etc…..
They are the Founding Fathers of not only the “WhatsApp University” but also the “Election Fraud University”.
No election can ever be fair and transparent in India anymore, as long as this Govt stays.
Even if the opposition wins a few elections, it’s only because the Dean of this university has allowed them to win a few, so that it all looks fair on the face of it.
Game over, if India doesn’t RESIST, NOW.
RESISTANCE ‼️
The media that ignored Jantar Mantar protest all this time has finally arrived.
Their first job? Smear the protest with baseless propaganda. Just look at this ABP News reporter.
1.5 million views on this tweet by ex-Japan minister blaming India for delays in Indo-Japanese Shinkansen project
“Sheer recklessness of the Indian side..”
“They just don’t keep promises..”
“The minister in charge was awful..”
He was Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist whose quiet brilliance in the 1920s forever altered our understanding of the quantum world.
In 1924, Bose, then a 30-year-old professor in British India, sent a groundbreaking manuscript directly to Albert Einstein. The paper offered a novel, more elegant derivation of Planck's law for blackbody radiation by treating light quanta (photons) as indistinguishable particles—a radical departure from classical statistical methods. Impressed by its insight, Einstein personally translated the work into German and facilitated its publication in the prestigious Zeitschrift für Physik.
This exchange sparked a brief but profound collaboration. Einstein extended Bose's statistical approach to material atoms, predicting a bizarre new state of matter at ultra-low temperatures: what we now call a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), where particles behave as a single quantum wave. Bose's original framework became known as Bose-Einstein statistics, and the class of particles that obey it—those with integer spin, including photons, gluons, W and Z bosons, and the Higgs boson—was later named bosons in his honor by Paul Dirac.
Unlike fermions (matter particles like electrons), which obey the Pauli exclusion principle and cannot occupy the same quantum state, bosons can pile into identical states en masse. This "social" behavior underpins extraordinary macroscopic phenomena: the coherent light of lasers, the zero-resistance flow in superconductors, and the collective quantum coherence in BECs.
Despite the monumental impact—his statistics describe half of all fundamental particles and enabled key advances in quantum field theory, condensed matter physics, and particle physics—Bose remained remarkably unassuming. He continued teaching at universities in Dhaka and Calcutta (now Kolkata), mentored students, pursued ideas in X-ray crystallography, unified field theory, and other areas, and never sought the spotlight. Nominated several times for the Nobel Prize (notably for Bose-Einstein statistics and his later work), he was never awarded it, and his name rarely appears in popular accounts of 20th-century physics.
There's a poignant humility in his story: a man whose legacy literally names one of the two fundamental families of particles in the universe, yet whose personal fame never matched the scale of his contribution. Bose reminds us that true influence often arrives without fanfare. Some breakthroughs echo through textbooks and technologies, while their creators work in the background, content to let the universe carry their ideas forward—even if history's spotlight rarely finds them.
They are now going to bulldoze a University!
That’s how vindictive this illiterate BJP-Sanghi brigade is.
They give a damn about education and the future of youth.
Bulldozing a university…pause and think!
TV डिबेट में एक BJP नेता ने पुजारी राममूर्ति को चप्पलों से पीट दिया
▪️पुजारी राममूर्ति ने राम मंदिर के चढ़ावा चोरी पर सवाल उठाया था
▪️पुजारी ने हनुमान जी की वेशभूषा में एक व्यक्ति को BJP अध्यक्ष नितिन नबीन के जुलूस में नचवाने पर आपत्ति की थी
यह है हिंदुओं और ढोंगियों में अंतर
I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying.
For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence.
Here's what happened. 🧵
"This Govt has been fooling the public since ages
Sita ke pati ka naam le le kar , Nita ke pati ke liye Kaam kar rahi hai"
Kunal Kamra mocked the Govt in today's CJP protest
More such people are coming in support of Sonam Wangchuk!!
Notice how the entire conversation changed from "E20 will save you lots of money" from "pure petrol will cost you more."
We have been pickpocketed, my friends.
As Sonam Wangchuk’s fast (seeking accountability of Education Minister) enters its 18th day & his health deteriorates, & the BJP & govt remains apathetic, it is important for all opposition leaders & all celebrities to come to Jantar Mantar to show their visible support for his cause
"I don't want the real Fungsuk Wangdu to die"
Chatur from 3 Idiots calls for support for Sonam Wangchuk & appeals to listen to his cause!!
Finally people are speaking up !!
The imperial mind cannot understand anti-American hatred because it cannot process consequences.
It can understand "disinformation."
It can understand "extremism."
It can understand "authoritarian manipulation."
It can understand anything except the simplest truth on earth:
If you bomb people, they will hate you.
Not because they are irrational.
Not because they envy your freedom.
Not because some foreign ideology hypnotized them.
Because you bombed them.
And empire finds that explanation intolerable, because it strips away the fantasy that America is hated for its "virtues."
No.
It is hated for its behavior.
And that is a much harder thing for a narcissistic civilization to admit.